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H. F. HAYDEN.

APPARATUS FOR GENERATING GAS AND VAPOR PROM LIQUID HYDROGARBONS.

No. 277,567. Patented May 15,1883;

trams rates PATENT FFIQIEO HENRY F. HAYDEN, OF WASHINGTON, l). 0., AESSIGNOR ()F tlWO-THIRDSTO JOHN A. LOGAN, OF UHIOA GO, ILL, AND JOHN '1. MORGAN, OF SELMA, ALA.

' APPARATUS FOR GENERATING GAS AND VAPOR FROM LIQUID HYDROCARBONS. a

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 277,567, dated May 15, 1883.

' Application tiled Mari-h 3t, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it. may com-era.- bottom upward, as bllnWU, so as to correspond Be it known that I, HENRY F. HAYDEN, of with the-increasingdiameter ot the shell or Washington, in the District of 001 utnbia,have .hody A. They should be of such a size as to invented certain Improvements in Apparatus leave an annular space of about one-fourth t IorGenerating Gas and Vapor from Liquid Hyan inch between their exterio and the adjoindrocarbons,of which the following is a speciti ing interior wall of the body A, these spaces i cation. being increased slightly as they approach the My present invention relates to retorts or top.

b encrators for the eneration or formation of i A series ct conical tubes 1: are. arran ed {0. vapor or gas from liquid hydrocarbons; and within the bodyA in such a manner as toalterthe invention consists in certain novel features nate with the chambers (J of the central tube, in the construction of the generator, as herein- B, as shown in Fig. 1, these conical tubes 0 beafter more fully setforth. ing of such a diameter as to fit against the in- Figure 1 is a central vertical section of my teriorot' thebody A at their upper ends, while r improvedgencratorsetinpositionforuse. Fig. .at their lower ends there is left an annular 6 2 is a bottom view taken on the lineyy. Fig. space of about onesixteenth of an inch in 3 isa transverse section on the linen-mot Fig. 1. width'between their inner edges and the outer The generator in this case is constructed on surface ofthe central tube, B, these conical the same general plan of that described in my tubes c being secured [0 two or more arms, a, 20 applicationliled February 26, 1883-that is to which project laterally from the sides of tube say, it has a smoke or heat tlue extendingt'rom B, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, by which they I the bottom up through the center of the genwill all be attached to the central tube, B, so erator; but this has certainadditional features thatthe whole can be lifted out together whendesigned to more etl'ectually utilize the heat, ever desired. In order to get these tubes 6 2 and thereby make it operate more el'ticiently into the position shown between the chambers 7 and economically in the production of the vaor enlargements (l ot'tube B, the latter may be per or gas. made in sections and screwed together, the In the accompanyingdrawings,A represents COlllCill tubes 0 hcingslipped on as the sections the body of the generator, said body consistare united; or the tube B, with its enlarge- 0 ing of a conical shell of cast-iron, having a ments or chambers C, may be cast complete flange, l, at its upper end, by which it is supand the conical tubes 0 be made in. two sections ported upon the surrounding walls of a flue, F, divided vertically, so they can be applied within which the generatoris suspended, as shown out ditficulty, this being a matter of choice. in Fig. 1, in which H indicates a portion of the The former will, however, be pret'erred as the 35 'walls of a furnace, of any suitable description, better plan. and which, not forming any part of this iuven- Within the central tube B, I arrange a setion, is therefore not shown. The body or shell ries of circular plates, 0, which are mounted l A is provided at its lowerend with an internal on a rod,t,and so adjusted thereon that one of annular flange, to which is bolted the central said plates shall beheld suspendedatthecentcr 4o tube or flue, B, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, this verticallyof eacbot' the chambers O, as shown 0 fine or tube B extending up through the top in Fig. 1, the rod '6 being supported at its upplate, G, where it passes through a stuffingper end by a cross-bar or spider, 7), arranged box, I, the same as in my application hereinwithin the tube B. These plates 0, .thus arbetore referred to. This central tube, B, inranged, act as dampers to prevent the direct 45 stead of being made straight and of uniform ascent of the products of combustion through diameter, as in the former case, is provided the tnbeB,and by deflectingtheheatproducts, with a series of enlargements or chambers, C, as indicated by the arrows, cause them to as shown in Fig.1, these chambers being ellipspread outward against the walls of the chain ties], as shown, or spherical, as may be prehers 0, thereby more effectually and evenly 5o ferred, they increasing in diameter from the heatingthesamc. By this constructionitwill 10o 

